Event description
Brigid is a dance and sound performance inspired by the pre-Christian goddess Brigid, linked to the origins of the Bean Sí (Banshee) myth and her caoineadh (keening). Radiant goddess of fire and wellsprings, Brigid kindles creativity, heals the wounded, and guards the thresholds between life and death.
The performance interlaces sonic and visual patterns in rhythmic interplay, where dancing and keening summon wretched, buried, and imagined worlds. Incorporating and inventing Sean Nós (old-style) rituals, Brigid unfolds through immersion and suspension, reckoning with both the entanglement and the difference between grief and fear, stirring encounters with living and unlived memories, and the otherworldly.
Performance Times
Sat 25 Oct, 7-8pm
Sun 26 Oct, 5-6pm
Creative team
Lead Artist, Alice Heyward
Choreography, Alice Heyward, Oisín Monaghan/Ó Manacháin and Ivey Wawan
Performance, Alice Heyward, Oisín Monaghan/Ó Manacháin (past project development included performer Leah Marojević)
Sound Composition and Performance, Gregor Kompar
Set, Alice Heyward & Gregor Kompar
Costumes, Chloe Hagger
Lighting, Andre Vanderwert
This project is presented by Performance Space as part of Liveworks 2025, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and development of this project was supported by HELLERAU, Gippsland Performing Arts Centre, Blue Ball Room, Kultursommer Wien.
Photography by Agustín Farias.
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